[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5756 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5756

To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 to permit the sale 
 of technologies to certain water and irrigation districts to expedite 
      the removal of harmful algal blooms, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2023

  Mr. Harder of California (for himself and Ms. Mace) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, 
                             and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 to permit the sale 
 of technologies to certain water and irrigation districts to expedite 
      the removal of harmful algal blooms, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Families from Toxic Algal 
Blooms Act''.

SEC. 2. HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM TECHNOLOGIES.

     Section 128 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (33 
U.S.C. 610 note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
    ``(e) Harmful Algal Bloom Technologies.--In carrying out the 
demonstration program under subsection (a), the Secretary may enter 
into agreements with water and irrigation districts located in the 
focus areas described in subsections (c) and (d) for the use or sale of 
any new technologies developed under the program to expedite the 
removal of harmful algal blooms in such areas.''.
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